Conditional formatting + IF + AND error

[dominicusb]

Hi,

I have been trying to format my table to highlight rows if TWO conditions are met
1. A checkbox in a cell is TRUE (checked)
2. A cell in the table contains a partial text string (the string is present in another cell)

The conditional formatting formula is as follows and it works if I only reference to the string in the cell BUT if I add a wildcard in the formula "*" it does not work

The formula that works is:
=IF(AND($F$1=TRUE;$E6=$E$1);TRUE;FALSE)

The formula that does not work is:
=IF(AND($F$1=TRUE;$E6="*"&$E$1&"*");TRUE;FALSE)

F1 contains the "new" checkbox
$E6 (cell/column) contains names with separation commas (can be multiple names and I want to highlight a row if the name from cell E1 is found in the cell/column $E6)

Any hints to what can be wrong?

[AliGW]

Welcome to the forum.

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[JohnTopley]

Try

for CF

=AND($F$1=TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E$1,$E6)))

[dominicusb]

suggestion: =AND($F$1=TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E$1,$E6)))

It did not work. It highlighted random cells not rows consistently.
At least I didn't get it to work by adding it to the formula instead of the later AND statement

This is what I changed:
=IF(AND($F$1=TRUE;ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E$1;$E6)));TRUE;FALSE)

[dominicusb]

suggestion: =AND($F$1=TRUE,ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E$1,$E6)))

It did not work. It highlighted random cells not rows consistently.
At least I didn't get it to work by adding it to the formula instead of the later AND statement

This is what I changed:
=IF(AND($F$1=TRUE;ISNUMBER(SEARCH(E$1;$E6)));TRUE;FALSE)

NOW IT WORKS :-)
I changed it to:
=IF(AND($F$1=TRUE;ISNUMBER(SEARCH($E$1;$E6)));TRUE;FALSE)

[dominicusb]

Thanks for your help JohnTopley

:-)

[dominicusb]

I added the excel file for clarification :-)
Mind that the language is Swedish but the code is in English

Thanks

[AliGW]

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